6-8 Jesus came back at them, “Don’t pressure me. This isn’t my time. It’s your time—it’s always your time; you have nothing to lose. The world has nothing against you, but it’s up in arms against me. It’s against me because I expose the evil behind its pretensions. You go ahead, go up to the Feast. Don’t wait for me. I’m not ready. It’s not the right time for me.”

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Therefore Jesus told them, “My time(A) is not yet here; for you any time will do. The world cannot hate you, but it hates me(B) because I testify that its works are evil.(C) You go to the festival. I am not[a] going up to this festival, because my time(D) has not yet fully come.”

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Footnotes

  1. John 7:8 Some manuscripts not yet

Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready.

The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.

Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast: for my time is not yet full come.

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